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If you think a joke’s funny, commit to it. Run straight into that wall, tell every excruciating detail of that embarrassing story, and laugh uproariously in that child’s face. Every year on April 1, officially the most hilarious of days, disappointingly few April Fools’ jokes go beyond a little work in Photoshop and a press release of top bants. League of Legends has committed to the joke.

Riot Games today actually properly released a new ‘Ultra Rapid Fire’ mode, supposedly as a preview of an upcoming balance patch. Playable for the next week, it cuts ability costs and cooldowns to turn LoL into a ridiculous mess of silliness.

“These changes focus on punching up what we believe are the best experiences in League of Legends,” Riot joke in a trailer, saying they’ll roll them out permanently for the next season. But URF is really real for now, and you’ll be able to play the mode for the next week. That’s commitment.

It exists in dota 2 too, but not as a gamemode you can queue for.
They did run a gag tournament of it once though! If I remember correctly strategy mostly revolved around using Sniper to spam shrapnel and kill towers in four seconds.

Wow: “We tweaked some numbers… to the extreme! Funny, right? Get it? The game isn’t balanced well now, see. We even removed a playable character from the roster. WHOA, right?” Kudos for commitment and implementation, but this sounds like the gag the lamest accountant in the office would come up with.

I laughed out loud at the “we removed Kassadin” part. With him having gone from being a 97% ban rate in ranked play to a joke character in one patch, removing him from the game completely would do wonders to his dignity.

Between that article and the “look how this female character is just a worthless footnote in a male character’s backstory who exists only to die violently” joke repeated thrice in a row over at the Outcasts page, Blizzard exhausted an extraordinary number of good points in a single day for me.

Okay, so let’s not count Olgra. That still leaves us with two characters who are treated like their entire worth was dying to provide a male character with a motivator, seated right next to each other. How is that supposed to make me comfortable, again?

Yeah, I’ve laned against ezreal and morgana. Fun fact: morgana’s black shield duration is actually longer that it’s cooldown. Suffice to say, that lane went poorly.
(I was with leona btw, which is kind of amazing as well)

I guess even joking about adding more than just the single level is too much effort, eh? Must be nice to work for Riot. Every other developer struggles to make dozens of unique levels and environments for their game, Riot just builds new character models and tweaks numbers :p